Visit the National Museum of the American Indian for an in-gallery conversation between Rebecca Trautmann, curator of Water’s Edge: The Art of Truman Lowe, and Dakota Hoska (Oglála Lakȟóta Nation, Pine Ridge, Wounded Knee), curator of Native American and Global Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Art. Together, they’ll offer visitors a closer look at selected artworks in the exhibition.
Dakota Hoska is the curator of Native American and Global Indigenous Art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Hoska was previously the Associate Curator of Native Arts and NAGPRA coordinator for the Denver Art Museum (DAM), after serving as a Research Assistant at the Minneapolis Institute of Art where she worked on the exhibition Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists. She holds a MA in Art History (focus on Native American Art History) from the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN (2019), a BFA in Drawing and Painting from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (2012), and she completed two years of Dakhóta language at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus (2016). Hoska is the curator for Andrea Carlson: A Constant Sky (catalog and exhibition, DAM, Oct 2025) and Sustained: The Persistent Genius of Indigenous Art (DAM, 2024). She was part of a 3-person curatorial team that reinstalled the Denver Art Museum’s Indigenous Arts of North America space, began their Indigenous Arts Community Council and served as the co-author and editor of Here Now: Indigenous Arts of North America at the Denver Art Museum (2022).
Closer Look is a series of in-gallery talks that bring visitors together with curators and other experts for deeper consideration of select artworks currently on view in the museum.
Leading support provided by Bank of America. Major support provided by the Henry Luce Foundation. Generous support provided by the Terra Foundation for American Art and Ameriprise Financial. Additional support provided by John and Meryl Lavine, Greg and Cathy Tibbles, and Leslie A. Wheelock.
Photo by Norwood Photography.